There is again the opportunity to experience the Royal Danish Ballet so what it does best - that is to tell a good, dramatic story through dance. Even the sets and choreography are by one of Denmark's greatest living ballet personalities, Flemming Flindt (bon 1936). When he in 1972 shook the public with his ballet Death's Triumph, with music by Savage Rose, he planted a whole different image in people's consciousnesses about what ballet at the end of the 20th century is and can be.

In addition to that popular breakthrough, Flemming Flindt has both as a dancer and as a choreographer had a magnificent career. Not only has he staged such monumental works as Le Sacre du Printemps and Swan Lake, but he also been a balletmaster both in the USA and Denmark.

Caroline Mathilde marks Flindt's homecoming to Denmark after many years in which he has been 100% dedicated to his work in the USA. And the work is in many ways a collection of Flemming Flindt's career: The big stories set with dramatic talent and with both technical demands and stark eroticism.

About this work, Ballet Master Frank Andersen says
It is, at the same time, a touching and shocking story about the english princess who comes to Denmark and is married to the crazy king, Christian VII, but who first later finds love with the king's physician Struense. A circumstance such as that should end fatally, and it does. Caroline Mathilde is one of the great Danish full-length ballets in the Royal Ballet's repertoire.

Shared focus on Queen Caroline Mathilde

Three big cultural institutions are together making people aware of the immortal trianglular drama between Queen Caroline Mathilde, Christian VII and the physician Struense:

The Royal Theatre's production of Flemming Flindt's Caroline Mathilde, publisher Forlaget Aschehoug's biography 'Caroline Mathilde - Power and Fate' by historian Michael Bregnsbo and Christiansborg Castle Trust's arrangement of a special tour in the footprints of Caroline Mathilde. It all happens in February and March of 2007.

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